WHO OUR PRESIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN

Fox News Hounds has the video clip of this now-famous interview by Bill O'Reilly of FAUX reporter Carl Cameron. IF McCain/Palin had won, there was a non-negligible chance that Palin would have to take McCain's place. Here's what we dodged¹:

O'REILLY: That's what happened to me. That's what happened with me. I talked to her on the phone. She wanted to do the interview, and then the McCain people wouldn't put her out there alone. The senator had to sit next to her. And logistically, we just couldn't pull it off.

OK. So all of this now makes perfect sense up to, say, a week ago. Then there were reports that Sarah Palin herself, under the pressure -- and she was under enormous pressure -- started to crack. Is that true?

CAMERON: Yes. There are stories that say she would look at her press clippings in the morning and throw what has been described to me as tantrums. The way I understand it, there are times when she would be so nasty and angry at staff that they would virtually be reduced to tears. There was the throwing of paperwork and things of this nature.

¹Fox News Network
November 5, 2008 Wednesday
SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR 8:38 PM EST
How Strained was McCain-Palin Relationship?
BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly, Carl Cameron
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 1403 words